KPBSD won’t get $8M after feds drop pandemic funding feud with state

Roughly a year after the federal government said Alaska underfunded multiple school districts during the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of Education said last month it’s dropping its case against the state. One of those districts was the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, which the feds say the state owed almost $8 million dollars. KDLL’s Ashlyn O’Hara spoke to District Superintendent Clayton Holland, who said they never expected to get the money anyway.

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